Book Review: Kick the Latch
April 12, 2024
As I followed Sonia through the everyday mundanity, gruelling work, and some unsavoury characters, her racetrack became its own little city.
As I followed Sonia through the everyday mundanity, gruelling work, and some unsavoury characters, her racetrack became its own little city.
A remarkable book, moving, fascinating, thought-provoking and short enough you’ll want to read it again the moment you finish.
An amazing, character-defining, self-contained Wolverine story. No prior knowledge of the character or the X-Men is required.
Cam and Adalyn have the kind of love story people dream of and I enjoyed every second of watching it develop.
John Allison has a gift for noticing the sweetness, finding gentleness everywhere and holding dear to a contemplative sentimentality.
This graphic novel has amazing characterization of Batman and Commissioner Gordon.
These poems lead with an open heart, pleading with surrender and screaming for justice and anyone who is watching can feel Avia’s frustration.
There’s plenty of room to add the extension packs to your game-play, though this game takes a while to learn.
I spent most of this book sitting in discomfort and rage and that desperate yearning to understand oneself.
Gotham is flooded and overgrown, and an ill-equipped, inexperienced Batman must take down the villainous icon, the Riddler.
Deborah Levy is absolutely brilliant and has encapsulated this intelligent coming-of-age story with wit and charm.
Don’t be fooled by the title – the stories show how sometimes our yearning to be ‘single, carefree, mellow’ can often make us anything but.
Parks is about efficiency management – how precisely you can get all the resources you need to visit the highest scoring park available.
New 52 Joker is at his most violent and deranged here, and attack Batman’s ‘family’ of Robins to get to him. The ending is iconic.
A sweeping, intergenerational novel, that has the strength and complexity of women (and their relationships) at its core.
Nici is real and generous, and her recipes are varied, simple and delicious. These recipes are designed for one, but can easily be modified.
If you haven’t read a poem since high school, or tried to but felt you were missing something – this is a brilliant place to start.
The writing is raw as rotting flesh, & as sweet as vomit. If you want to feel like you’ve woken up from a coma then this is the book for you.
A collection of prose essays, but the spacing and structure seemed designed to slow the reader into appreciating the rich, evocative language.
Paired with sharp wit and soft art, this is a relaxing story about belonging, different types of love and the power of taking things slow.
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